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Is your startup in stealth? You gotta know LaunchRock

Eric Ries told me something very interesting in a two-part interview I did with him (part I, part II), which is a core principle of his “lean startup” methodology: why waste your time coding if you don’t even know if anyone is interested?

Well, it builds a great looking site for you to put onto Techcrunch and it keeps track of who signs up for your product and where they came from. Simple, huh? Yeah, but why not do that yourself?

Well, why waste time on setting up a mailing list, building a website, etc etc when you are in a race to get your core product done?

Highly recommended for startups.

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Two minutes? I think you have no clue about how long it takes to build a website that can handle the loads that Techcrunch or Oprah or other launch vehicles can bring. This is work that startups should outsource to others and LaunchRock is a great place to start.

Beyond that though, it’s not quite as simple as you might think. We handle all of the referral tracking and inserting the links into the Twitter and Facebook buttons. Then we give you analytics on the backend.

Then there’s the other things we do too. Starting this week we’re giving you an address book importer and sending out invites by email. Then we have analytics (basic now, but going to be building out a lot of cool things here), integration with RapLeaf so you can better understand your users, sweet Posterous integration and more.

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